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Symphronica - Instrumental Music Liberation Front

Liberate Instrumental Music! The history of western music is one of the instrumental living in harmony (ahem) with the vocal. A Beethoven symphony, a Verdi opera. Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, Duke Ellington's Isfahan. The Beatles' Let It Be, Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man. But recently, instrumental music has gone missing. Become nearly invisible. Inaudible. In old media. In new. Words and music, yes. Music alone, no.

Instrumental music must be restored to culture's apex. We need an Instrumental Music Liberation Front. SymphRONica to the rescue. This record is the opening salvo. A journey through the great fountainheads of the instrumental. Jazz meets classical musics (emphasis on the ‘s': European, Québecois, Sepahrdic, Manouche). Let musical freedom ring! Let Instrumental Music be Liberated!

Ron Davis:

SymphRONica UPFRONT

Ron Davis. Piano player, composer, band leader, Edinburgh Festival Fringe favourite, BBC Radio 3 repeat guest, solo artist, critics choice. Ron and his band of award-winning musicians have kept people listening, loving and coming back for more.

Ron's music blends genres and pushes boundaries. It builds on his jazz and classical training, influenced by world music (klezmer, Hungarian, Italian, Brazilian, Latin). He seeks new textures, new forms, new compositions, new formations and new ways of presenting his signature sound. The music is diverse in a characteristically Canadian way. Ron is the founder of SymphRONica, the creative project that combines jazz, world, groove, pop, classical music and a stellar group of Canadian musicians into a mix that can be found nowhere else. In Ron's words "Just as Toronto is a city composed of many people from many places, SymphRONica is composed of a group of musicians from diverse backgrounds, and every one of them plays with intense passion and pleasure together." SymphRONica is genre-defying – no one else is combining a jazz ensemble with full symphony orchestras or string quartets.

Ron Davis:

Pocket Symphronica

Toronto's extraordinary pianist-composer Ron Davis has established himself as one of the most original, enjoyable voices in jazz today. Ron looks within, and ensures that every piece he plays and story he tells has meaning. He is unconstrained by boundaries – jazz, world, pop, and classical are all places Ron calls home. These qualities are all on display on Ron's newrecording, his tenth, Pocket Symphronica (Really Records). It features a mashup of Ron's electric/acoustic jazz/pop quartet plus an energetic string quartetplaying his own tunes, inflected with Middle Eastern sounds (D'Hora); pop (Variations on Poker Face and Lady Gaga); and funk (GruvMuv).

4 NEW 87 TOTAL
SYND: CBC
Direct: AccuRadio
Markets include: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, San Diego, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Albuquerque, Boulder CO, Raleigh NC, Hartford CT, Santa Fe NM, Honolulu, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
Online: Jazz Weekly, The Whole Note, Taintradio, Dirty Dog, fyi, Eclectic Chair, Jazz From Gallery 41, Taintradio, Radio CUH, SoulandJazz

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Ron Davis:

Symphronica

" a real smash. Ron Davis is a wonderful pianist. The arrangements are superb"
John Morris Russell, Conductor, Cincinnati Pops

"SymphRonica rocks … reminiscent of the symphonic early recordings of Chuck Mangione and the orchestra sessions Miles Davis did with Gil Evans.... beautiful... stunning... mesmerizing... inventive."- The Windsor Star

Ron Davis, Symphronica is an irresistable symphonic compositions for jazz piano. Symphronica comes to life with six Davis originals and 3 more that blend the classic jazz piano trio with orchestra and immediately grabs the listener.

18 New 'ON' 81 Total
Direct: In-Flight
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis, Denver, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Austin, Berkeley CA, Jacksonville FL, Boulder CO, Long Island NY, Omaha NE, Canada
Online: Soulandjazz.com, RadioIO, Jazzin' Around, Live 365, Thejazzgroove, WGOE, trud